Paris 2024: The figures have arrived

by Cyclops Marine Sep 24 4:48 AM PDT

Each Olympic cycle brings something unique. Classes are introduced and discontinued, formats evolve, and new stars appear through incredible dedication, hard work and smarter training practices. One of the constants of every recent Olympiad, however, is the continual push towards data-driven performance analysis.

Tokyo 2021 saw the Japanese Judo Federation use algorithmic formulas to rank their athletes, the computer vision used in beach volleyball, as well as machine learning and AI used by American surfing. Each cycle becomes more professional and obsessed with performance, and data technology is spearheading this movement.

Wearable technology is virtually universal in all events, smartwatches and surveillance vests give athletes and analytics teams the knowledge of where effort is best exerted, when athletes are overworked and at what the stats look like during peak performance, giving them the increased ability to optimally repeat conditions.

In a sport where your gear is an extension of your body, wireless load sensors do the same for your rig – they connect your body and all you have to say about the settings that feel fast to you and your rig. where they all manifest. By providing real-time rig load figures on the water, the sensors give sailors the ability to adjust the shape of the sail to known parameters, meaning that each training session can start where the last one was. stopped, which gives them the best chance to get the most out of every minute on the water. After sailing, the data can be uploaded to navigation analysis software and integrated with wind data and maneuver analysis to give a complete picture of what is happening on the water.

Several Olympic federations use Cyclops sensors as part of their programs, and they may have the most impact as teams can derive incredible value from comparing information from different boats and crews through the same system.

Teams see wireless load sensors as the next development that can give them an edge over their top competitors, but it could be that by 2024 most teams are using sensors, with only a few left – a few. With this unprecedented 3-year Olympiad every training session will have to be effective, sailors can’t waste time in their plans and the need for accurate performance analysis is greater than ever – the luxury of months. ‘Unfounded trial and error cannot be offered.

With the introduction by Cyclops of load cells suitable for future dinghies in 2020, this will be the first full cycle where all Olympic classes are served by Cyclops sensor range, with even the nascent class of kitesurfing supported by the smallest sensor – the smartlink Nano.

This new development is expected to have a decisive impact on how the next three years unfold and ultimately culminate in Paris in 2024.

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